Be Excellent To Each Other

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We’re on Episode 7 of The Terror (BBC iPlayer), and we’ve been really enjoying it, but having seen The Crown it’s hard not to think of the Captain and commander as being George VI snd Prince Phillip. Also

The heck intensifies, I enjoyed the terror

We're a few episodes in (we went in cold (very good -Ed))now, and bloody hell a series about the crew of two ships overwintering in the ice field and

We watched Derry Girls over the past few weekends and it is brilliant!

Really funny. I'd highly recommend it.

Giphy "applause":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/fnK0jeA8vIh2QLq3IZ/giphy-loop.mp4

Still watching it - might starting watching on Iplayer rather than wait for the weekly broadcast, although the current BBC2 idents are things of beauty. I awarded the production bonus nerd points for the bit where they showed how uncomfortable standing for a daguerreotype is in real time.

Yes, I only recently started watching it. Surprised how it had past me by - it's superb.

Here's my very exciting (subs please check) story about The Terror: https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 4#p1028144

Series 2 is bobbins, though.

That's a suspiciously northern saying for you. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH GRIMOTHY?

Reyt bobbins me dook

I'm his PA.

Or a girl that stole his phone. You choose.

Tell me about the girl, before I choose

That's brilliant.

I think a lot of it was "live posted". Hang on.

Here it is: https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... f=3&t=6872

Brilliant. Bloody Rachel.

Brilliant..

Fuck Off was that ten years ago!

Cor, yeah it was. Before phone-location stuff was baked into the OS.

Poor Russ never got an answer

It's true! The answer is "I met her on the train, but for all I knew she had a massive husband / wife / housemate. But IIRC he was pretty small".

New Taskmaster tonight! SQUEEE!

We’ve just started taskmaster (starting at the most recent series and then working back a couple). I’ve enjoyed it as something light and mindless (though I really disliked the David Baddiel bits, where he just talked about his penis and wanted only to humiliate Little Alex Horne).

That's a weird name for him to give it.

It's an excellent show and often the cause of belly laughs I also particularly like how clever the set dressing and editing is - a lot of thought has clearly gone into the presentation.

Sometimes you get an excellent combination of celebs, other times one or two aren't as good, but on the whole the range makes for varied approaches. I sometimes find myself warming to people I don't normally like - Johnny Vegas and James Acaster come to mind on this.

Oh, exactly that! There have been a couple of times I’ve laughed until I’m short of breath, and I’m exactly the same with people like Johnny Vegas who I’ve not particularly liked before show a different side.

Guardian: BBC Four to become archive channel as cost-cutting drive continues



Disappointing, if unsurprising. Nothing wrong with bringing archival material back to the screens, of course, but part of BBC4's charm was the mix of art, history, science, and travel shows done with lesser-known hosts and often from slightly esoteric angles.

That utterly sucks balls. I wonder if they'll let Lucy Worlsey continue to make excellent docs.

No BBC 4 music night! In fact, no BBC 4 at all tonight. Gah.

Finished The Terror last night. Really enjoyed it and found the ending pretty satisfying.